DROP BY THE WALKER ANY THURSDAY FOR A SAMPLER OF FREE EVENTS, INCLUDING
GALLERY TOURS, READINGS, FILM SCREENINGS, LECTURES, AND PERFORMANCES.
THE GALLERIES ARE OPEN UNTIL 9 PM, SO STAY LATE TO TAKE IT ALL IN.

JANUARY
3FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PMTour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.

JANUARY
10FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PMTour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.FREE
FILM: DIVINE VISION (DIVYA DRISHTI),
8 PM, AUDITORIUMDIRECTED
BY SIDHARTH SRINIVASAN
INTRODUCED BY JOHAN VAN PARYS In suburban Mumbai, a charlatan
sadhu counsels innocent workers and housewives tied together in
a complex net of sexual betrayal and unfulfilled desire. Divine Vision
was awarded Best Film at the ITC Digital Talkies International Film Festival
2001 and the Karachi International Film Festival. 2001, India, color,
video, in Hindi with English subtitles, 120 minutes. Copresented by the
Basilica of St. Mary.FREE
TALK: BETTER LOOKING: FORM AND CONTENT, 6:30 PMFor new visitors as well as
longtime art lovers, the Better Looking lectures provide a unique opportunity
to learn about contemporary art from experts in the field. This month,
Walker Associate Curator Douglas Fogle compares and contrasts works by
Arte Povera artists Alighiero Boetti and Giovanni Anselmo. How does a
content-driven artwork rely on its formal elements for balance? How does
a work that seems to be about shape and materials reveal its meaning?
Join us with your own questions and ideas. Meet in the lobby.BETTER LOOKING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT
FROM SOTHEBY'S.

JANUARY
17FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PMTour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.FREE
WARE: NORA PAUL, 7 PM, LECTURE ROOMAs the director of the Institute
for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, Nora Paul actively
questions ways that new forms of messages and their delivery affect the
manner in which stories are told and products are sold. For this engagement,
she invites the audience to explore the ways interactive narratives and
computer-game models can be used in journalism to produce fresh modes
of storytelling.

JANUARY
24FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PMTour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.FREE
TALK: JOANNE HERSHFIELD: THE INVENTION OF DOLORES DEL RIO, 8 PM,
LECTURE ROOMAssociate Professor of Communication
Studies at the University of North Carolina, Joanne Hershfield is the
author of the books Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940-1950 and
The Invention of Dolores del Rio. Her readings of del Rio's films
present provocative models for examining Hollywood parameters on gender
and race as well as attitudes of the greater culture reflected onscreen.
"Dolores del Rio provided an enigmatic fascination for Hollywood filmmakers
and film audiences for more than 50 years," writes Hershfield. "Her racialized
female body always, and necessarily, evoked anxieties about interracial
sexual relations and miscegenation." Presented in conjunction with the
film series Illuminating the Screen: Dolores del Rio.

JANUARY
31FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PMTour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.

FREE
VERSE: GERARD MALANGA, 7 PM, LECTURE ROOMPoet-photographer-filmmaker
Gerard Malanga reads from his recent work, No Respect: New & Selected
Poems 1964-2000. He is best known for his collaborations with Andy
Warhol, which include nearly 500 individual three-minute "screen tests."
A central figure at the Factory, Malanga choreographed the music of the
Velvet Underground Live, and in 1969 cofounded Interview magazine
with Warhol. His photographs have been published in the monographs Resistance
to Memory and Screen Tests Portraits Nudes and have recently
been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. At this Free Verse
appearance, Malanga will also screen his rarely seen short film In
Search of the Miraculous (1967, 29 minutes, 16mm, color).FREE VERSE IS COSPONSORED BY RAIN TAXI REVIEW OF
BOOKS.

FREE THURSDAYS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND THE LILA WALLACE-READER'S DIGEST FUND.